{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Donna-Michelle St Bernard - Thought #2 - Resistance\/Release","description":"My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my second thought. Last night I dreamt of my brothers, both runners.   We all were.  That was a thing to do, in my family.  A thing to be excellent at.  Running. One thing I picked up off of them was the trick of training in water.   Conditioning.  Getting into a pool knee or waist or shoulders deep,  running across its width as hard as possible, back and forth. For runners, accustomed to and striving for speed, it\u2019s frustrating.   the water pushing back against your efforts,  the dissonance between your labour and the outcome.   It\u2019s hard.    But by the time you get back to dry land,  you are an earthman landing on the moon.   Gravity is a non-factor.   After engineering all of this resistance, the race is a release,  a flight, you can achieve a seemingly superhuman speed.     Now, in this moment, there is no need to engineer resistance, it is there.   We are in it, and unless we stand still,  we are strengthening beneath the surface.   When I get back on dry land, I will be released, and I will fly.   Now, I just need to understand, in this moment,  what is the water? And what is the race? Good teaching, bro. ","author_name":"The Thought Residencies","author_url":"http:\/\/www.spiderwebshow.ca","html":"